Posted on August 23, 2015. Tags: catalonia, Democracy, euro, European Union, eurozone crisis, Francois Mitterand, Germany, Helmut Kohl, Hitler, Kissinger, Legitimacy, Merkel, NATO, Nazis, Scotland, Soviet Union, Weimar
This article was originally published by The Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in Carnegie Ethics Online on 17 August 2015. In Klaus Harpprecht’s 1995 biography of Thomas Mann, he highlights a statement which Mann wrote in 1947, which, as Harpprecht puts it, “one reads with a distinct shiver half a century later”: In […]
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Posted in Europe, Germany, Global Economy, World
Posted on January 2, 2015. Tags: European Union, eurozone crisis, Germany, Immigration, Merkel, Racism, UK, UKIP, United Kingdom
I haven’t been wildly impressed by how Angela Merkel has handled the eurozone crisis, but this speech to the German people shows why (for my money) she’s easily the most impressive political leader in Europe, if not the world, right now. At a time when too many UK politicians have been pandering to extreme tendencies in a craven attempt […]
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Posted in Economic Security, Europe, Germany, Global Economy, Refugees, World